Captain Gamer - Don't worry, Grasshopper is going to have a much bigger part in this chapter. And he's going to kill a lot too, just how you want him to. Lots of slicing, bashing, you know, the like.
A/N- Hello everyone and welcome to The Fire in his eyes Chapter 19. THIS is the chapter in which Cameron is...FINALLY...DEFEEEEAAATEEEEEED! WEE! It's gonna be FUCKING LONG, so grab yourself some chips and a soda and get ready for a bumpy ride.
Readers: (cheer very loudly)
This chapter's really long. But it's not the last one. I repeat: THIS IS NOT THE LAST CHAPTER. There will be one or two more chapters explaining Link and Layla's happily ever after and then like...an epilogue. Also there will be a little bonus chapter after the epilogue of all my greatest ideas that I kept in the document I deemed "Brainstormage". It's where all the greatest ideas in this story began. So enjoy this big chapter, my loves! It's DA CLIMAX!
...Hehe. I said climax. (Immature)
By the way, I know that this chapter took a very long time and I really apologize, I am REALLY, TRULY sorry, but my computer broke down AGAIN, and if I hadn't worked SO VERY HARD on this chapter while it was down, it would have taken LONGER. So be happy it IS up. I am a very hard-working author, and only my fellow author/reviewers know how hard it is to update quickly. Hey, I updated totally quick in the beginning of the story, unlike OTHERS I know. (glances around at a particular fellow author)
Layla and Link looked up in surprise.
"...Plan?" Grasshopper's voice faded into their ears.
"...Sorry, Grasshopper, what?" Link said.
"I said: Don't you want to know the plan?"
"Okay..." Link and Layla sat down together with Nathaniel, Nesira, and Grasshopper, Layla in Link's lap. They looked at the map of the fortress. Layla snorted.
"This thing is so outdated."
"Well we made a good plan with it so shut up!" Grasshopper said, annoyed at her. Layla looked taken aback and sat back in Link's lap. Grasshopper pointed to a spot on the map. "Here!" he said, looking around, "is the entrance. And this is where we start."
A sheet of silence fell over the occupants of the room as Grasshopper explained the plan.
Obviously, Layla was to be around, in the compound, monitoring their progress, keeping anyone who might stand in the way of their plans busy. They knew that Nika would help them against Cameron, so Nesira's first task was to free Nika, even if it meant fighting Nabooru along the way. After all, Nesira had trained under Nabooru, and knew all her moved, and also had been deemed, by the (Gerudo) Queen herself, her most formidable warrior. Link's movement was to weave stealthily through the fortress and make a beeline for Cameron, swooping up Layla on the way ("So that when you burst in, you can look all cool and tough and Layla can look all sexy and pouty and "damsel in distress"-y." Grasshopper noted. "I had help in the fight, too!" Layla grumbled at him.).
"I," Grasshopper began proudly, "am going to make sure nobody gets suspicious with my (4w350m3 n1nj4 5k1llz! – That was for you Captain Gamer.) spying techniques." Once he saw Link dashing off to the Great Hall with Layla, (Cameron was going to be there, anyway, that's where he usually hung out when not harassing his wife.) He would jump down and join their rampage. Nesira would take her sweet time in defeating Nabooru, given that she was the most formidable opponent. Nathaniel was to make his way to the infirmary to alert Zara and the other Nurses. Some of the nurses would be hostile at first, yes, but in the infirmary, nobody was allowed to carry a weapon, so they couldn't do anything until they listened to his story. So Nathaniel, being the charismatic one he was, could most likely persuade them to be on his side. Zara would back him up, as well.
"Alright. Uhm." said Layla. "So...then." Grasshopper rolled up the map and beamed.
"See you guys tomorrow!"
"WHAAAT? YOU'RE GOING TO STORM IT TOMORROW?"
"As soon as possible!" said Grasshopper. "Cameron...he doesn't deserve to live. So there."
"Geh..." Layla sighed. As Nathaniel bade the visitors goodbye, Layla turned to Link. "Hey Link...can I get my nose pierced?"
"Well...I don't care Layla...you already have a navel piercing, it's not like it would matter..." Link said, a questioning look in his eyes. Layla wrapped her arms around Link's neck and sighed.
"Well, I just wanted to ask you since this one means something."
"Doesn't a navel piercing mean you're in the highest ranks of the Gerudo warriors?" Link asked.
"Well, yeah. This one means I'm married to a man I don't love." she said. She sat back and pointed to left side of her nose. "Here. On the other side, it means I don't want to marry. Some girls do that. Like the designated birthmothers...they do that." Layla said. Link pondered this possibility.
"But what about when we get married?"
"Well, it'll be soon, and when I take it out he hole will close up because it's not fully healed yet." Layla said matter of factly. She looked out the window to the darkening sky. "I should be going." she looked at Kunti, who was humming as she washed the plates. She wondered...did Kunti have her eye on somebody? She hadn't gotten her nose pierced...and she was already past her teens...which is when most Gerudos marry. Layla abandoned these thoughts as Kunti finished and turned to her.
"Time for us to go, Layla." she said, slowly. She obviously knew Layla would be reluctant to go. Layla nodded shortly and turned to Link.
"I...I'll miss you." she said.
"I'll miss you too." He kissed her and they stayed like that for a while, the slightly long kiss showing that they wanted to feel like they never had to part.
"Don't be late tomorrow." Layla said.
"I won't, I promise."
"I love you."
"I love you, too."
"I love you more..."
"No I love you more..."
"OH DIN, WILL YOU PLEASE JUST GO YOU WILL SEE EACHOTHER IN LESS THAN TWELVE HOURS!" Nathaniel groaned. He smiled playfully afterwards though.
"Uh, yeah. Bye Link." Layla said. She sat up and it looked as though she almost winced with the tips of her fingers parted with Link's. She blew him a kiss before disappearing out of the house through the crate with Kunti.
"She's so great..." Link said in a dreamy state.
"Yes, of course she is. Both of them are."
"What, Kunti and Layla? Dude, Zara?"
"No, I meant Layla and Zara!" the prince snapped.
"Oh, yeah. Don't worry man, you'll see her tomorrow!" Link said.
"Yeah, I guess." Nathaniel put away the dishes and looked around. "I think we should get to bed. Grasshopper is a bit hyperactive, thus he'll wake us up early."
"Most likely." Link said. She yawned and got up from the table, stretching and kicking off his boots. They landed, folded over, next to his bed. Nathaniel climbed the ladder to the upstairs bed and the light clicked off when he reached it. And they fell asleep.
"Rise and shine!"
"No."
"Now now, don't be lazy!"
"I be lazzzzy if…wannuh, levv meh alone." A slightly malformed sentence reaches the ears of the other party. They slightly shake the other now.
"We have to go, we can't be late."
"Please, 'mom', just 5 more minutes." The bed-ridden individual mocked.
"No. Get up!" The awakener got insistent, and the awakened rolled over, eyes still shut, and waved their hands in the air in the direction of the awakener, causing them to jerk away.
"Grrrrrrrmmmmmmm!" They spouted, obviously annoyed with being woken up so early.
"Get up, we have to get ready to leave!"
"Wait, where are we going?"
"I told you yesterday."
"You said NOTHING yesterday."
"Yes, yesterday I told you, we're moving back to my kingdom. Maybe you forgot, you were reading a book fervently at the time…" Cameron said carelessly.
Layla shot up. "Whoa! Cameron! Uhhh…so soon?" she said nervously.
"You know that I've been planning this for a long time."
"Cameron, the last time I heard about this, it was like, a whim! Come on, you know I love it here, Don't rip me away from the Gerudo!"
"You say that you love Hyrule and that you love your fellow Gerudos, but what you mean is that you love Hyrule and LINK. I'm not that ignorant, Layla." Cameron said, scornfully. Layla pouted.
"Cameron." She said, sitting cross-legged and folding her arms. "I am not going back to Cyrin with you."
"Peh. YES you are. You aren't making these decisions."
"CAMERON, the last time we got agitated at each other, I was pregnant, and remember how scared you were then? I AM NOT PREGNANT ANYMORE, AND IF I WANTED TO, I COULD—ahh!"
"You could, WHAT?" Cameron said, raising one eyebrow as he held Layla to the ceiling telepathically. "The last time we got angry at each other, I couldn't do THIS." He said, meaning the sort of binding he had put on Layla so that she stuck to the ceiling.
"CAMERON! Lemme DOWN!" she struggled. He let her fall to his big, soft bed, and she sat up huffily. "Cameron, you AREN'T calling the shots!" Layla said.
"Oh, I'm not, am I?"
"Nope, because I...I have friends! And they could help me if they wanted to!"
"Oh, yes, Zara and brother dearest. HA! They couldn't defeat me if they had Link AND another character with them." Cameron said confidently. Layla pouted. What about THREE other characters? she thought. Grasshopper, Nesira, and Kunti. Surely all six of the vengeful warriors could defeat this tyrant.
"Cameron! You—you! Layla said. "You SUCK!"
"Ooh, scathing." The prince replied sarcastically. He walked over to his wife and stood in front of her where she sat on the bed. He put an index finger to her forehead and pushed lightly, pulling away immediately afterward. "You are my wife and you shall follow me to Cyrin like my wife because that is your duty." Layla scowled at Cameron and mimicked is pointing technique.
"You," she started, thrusting her left arm out and pointed at him forcefully, her thumb also flexed straight out. As her arm straightened from the sudden movement. Her three "goddess" bracelets clinked together in a musical way. "Are a chauvinistic bastard and I will not go with you. Find yourself another person to fit your personality. A slut, perhaps. Ah. That's right. What about Anne Marie? What about her, hm?"
"Be quiet. Anne Marie is my birthmother for my SON, since you FAILED in that department. We aren't in LOVE or anything. Love is such a disgusting and useless emotion, I can't see why or how anyone can carry it out. Speaking of love, those BRACELETS are not coming with us to Cyrin. Link gave them to you and you are not allowed anything that may remind you of him, and hopefully you will forget about him." He reached for Layla's arm to take the bracelets and Layla jerked her arm away.
The very thought of her turning into some sort of man-controlled queen was mortifying. She could just see it, an image flashed before her eyes of her hair done up all weird and fancy, in a big poofy dress with lots of heavy jewelry on. Like THAT would help her back problems, since she already knew she'd have some from the enormous size of her chest. Puffs and ruffles and jewelry were NOT Layla's thing and she wasn't going to do it.
"Fine. Just don't take my bracelets away. I'm going to go get something from the infirmary..." she said slowly. "I'll be right back. Start packing." Layla swept out of the room and Cameron raised an eyebrow.
"That was surprisingly easy."
Layla ran across the compound and into the infirmary. She called immediately for Zara, who had her hair up, to disguise the resemblance to Layla, and Layla immediately pulled her hair out of the bun and shook it loose.
"I need you to take my place packing. Link and the others will be here any minute now, and Cameron wants to go, and...and...YOU STUPID IDIOT WHY DIDN'T YOU TELL ME HE WANTED TO GO?" Layla screamed.
"I...I'm sorry, Layla!" Zara said, startled. "I forgot, okay?"
"Oh, you FORGOT? 'Yeah, Layla, the day was pretty uneventful. Oh by the way Cameron wants to leave for Cyrin.' IT WAS THAT EASY--THAT EASY!"
"Well I said half of it..." Zara muttered.
"I don't care." Layla said indignantly. Zara began to leave, but Layla called after her. "Wait!"
The gentle Gerudo turned back and Layla looked up at the ceiling, avoiding eye contact.
"Can you...pierce my nose?" said the warrior, obviously nervous about the rest of the day. Layla acted strong, but deep inside she was insecure, just like anyone else.
"Sure." Zara led her to one of the open rooms and grabbed the tools. Layla shut her eyes tight and waited for Zara to do the piercing.
"Okay, ready? One...two...three..."
"OW!" Layla said as Zara Jabbed into her nose with a needle. Layla bit her lip and sighed as the cold stud replaced the needle. She opened her eyes and waited as Zara dabbed away the little bit of blood she had provoked out of Layla's skin.
"All done, wasn't so bad, see?" Zara smiled and handed Layla a mirror. The warrior looked at the golden jewelry in her flesh. She grinned.
"All I have to say is 'Chew on THIS, Cameron.'" She giggled and Zara flipped her hair over her shoulder.
"So, you know how to take care of it, right?"
"Yes yes, I know the ropes. Now go see Cameron 'fore he gets angry and finds two Laylas with two different voices in one room." Layla said, walking behind Zara and ushering her out of the infirmary.
"Good Luck!" Zara called as she left. Layla watched her and then pulled her hair up in a high ponytail and put on more makeup, to disguise herself as well as possible. She walked outside with a scythe and walked around the compound, finally deciding that she would just sit someplace and watch the entrance, because there was only one way in, why should she look anywhere else?
BOOM.
"Tiiiiiime to wake up, sleepyheads, cuz we need to go save Layla!" Grasshopper announced, slamming open the door. Link used all of his strength to thrust himself up into a sitting position, and then flopped back down.
"Dude, The sun ain't up."
"Which is why we should go now! It's early! Most of the Gerudos aren't up by now...right?"
"Uh, noooooo." Link sat up again and pulled on his boots, reluctantly complying with Grasshopper's commands. "They get up so early its a wonder that they sleep at all. Let me assure you that they are up and patrolling by now."
"Well, crap."
"Uh, Link, Grasshopper, I need some help with Nathaniel up here..." Nesira moaned. She was trying to stand, but the sleeping Prince had attached himself to her leg.
"Don't go! Your muffins are so tasty, Princess...!" Nathaniel mumbled. Link climbed up the steps and detached Nathaniel from Nesira's legs and shook the prince softly.
"Hey, man. Time to go." He whispered. The redhead's eyes fluttered open as he looked around.
"Oh, right, let me get my boots."
"You guys, I'm gonna go ahead while you get ready, okay?"
"Alright, Nesira, seeya." Said Grasshopper, dismissing her. She nodded and bounded out the door towards the entrance to Kakariko Village. Link sighed as he watched her go.
"So, what else do we have to do?" asked Nathaniel, climbing down the ladder. A long silence followed after.
"...I'm hungry." Grasshopper commented mindlessly.
"Well, then we can eat before we go!" Nathaniel said cheerily. He made some eggs and set out three plates.
The breakfast was eaten in silence. Truth was, all three boys were kind of scared. What if they didn't succeed? What if Cameron got in the way of their plans? What if one of their loved ones were hurt in the process? Grasshopper was especially afraid for Nesira's safety. She was fighting the QUEEN of all those fierce women out there.
As he finished his meal, he sighed and leaned back in his chair, watching the others eat. Link had a brow furrowed as well, but Nathaniel looked—and had acted this entire time—completely calm. Wasn't heeven the least bit worried about Zara? Nathaniel picked up all the plates and left them in the sink and grabbed his sword as Link got up and walked towards the door as well. They opened the door and looked out over the green land of the village.
"Well, here goes nothin'." Said Link, as he walked in front of Nathaniel and Grasshopper.
They had reached Hyrule Field and, possibly, the most vulnderable moment in their trek. All out in the bright, open light and preoccupied as well. Grasshopper wasn't exactly preoccupied, because he had already worked out that Nesira could get really, REALLY brutal when worked up and therefore could take care of herself, even in the presence of Nabooru, and even while fighting her. So basically he was preoccupied with the fact that Nathaniel and Link were preoccupied. He wondered what they were preoccupied about.
(A/N- Kind of like my spanish teacher. She sucks at teaching so we get confused, and so we ask her a question and when she answers we're still confused, and so we ask her to explain it and she doesn't get why we don't get it, and then we try to do it even though we're confused, and so then when we hand it in to her she grades it badly and we're confused as to why she graded it badly if she didn't explain it, and so we ask her about it, and she gets confused, and we're confused as to why she's so confused, and then I'm confused and Leigh's confused and Stacy's confused and then...the...confusion monster...wait. I've confused myself.)
Link bit his lip as he jogged along in the feild with Grasshopper and Nathaniel. He wondered how Layla was. Sure, he had seen her just a while ago, but what if Cameron had some evil plot up his sleeve that he had just put into enactment today. Well, he decided, Layla was a tough, cunning girl. She could take care of herself. Although he was very worried about her. He glanced at Nathaniel. He wondered...was he at all worried about Zara? He had seemed so calm this entire time...like...at times...Link knew that he had moaned and groaned and fidgeted and paced, wondering about Layla. And this whole time, Nathaniel had remained strong, just comforting Link when he was distraught. Was he keeping it all bottled up inside?
Link is staring at me...Nathaniel thought. He caught a glimpse of Link cerulean eyes sizing him up. What was he thinking about. In any case, he looked sad. Nathaniel sighed. Was he worried that they couldn't do anything? Did he think Nathaniel was weak? No, that can't be it. Nathaniel's mind raced around and settled on Zara. He hadn't heard from her at all. He was bit Jealous of Link when Layla came to visit. And every time Link qould pace around, worried about Layla, didn't help. Nathaniel knew that Layla was a strong warrior, and the fact that Link was worried about HER safety while Zara was only a nurse...the outlook was not good.
The thing was...Nathniel had had to stay strong for Link. He knew that Link, although a very stong warrior with much courage, didn't have much confidence in himself when things looked grim. The temples were obstacles put in his way, really, and he could defeat those, they didnt really involve much emotion. But this time, Link was faced with one thing that he most likely did not truly understand. Love. Link knew that he was in love with Layla, he knew that Layla was in love with him, he knew that love induces passion, and passion was pleasure, but he didn't really know if love truly was love at all. He had skipped the most crucial years in his life. When he had fallen asleep, his voice hadn't even changed. And he awakens, an able-bodied man?
Anne Marie had especially messed this up for the hero. At only, virtually, 12 years of age, (he was practically still supposed to think girls were ICKY!) he had fallen head-over-heels for the worst girl possible and had his heart ripped in two a few months after.
Link really didn't understand why love was what it was. He didn't know why he felt the way he did for Layla, he just knew that he did. He didn't get the fact that they were made for eachother. He didn't understand that, because he and she had gotten to know eachother and that they were compatible, and they were a perfect match, and THAT was why they were in love. All he knew was that he and Layla had to be together, he couldn't live without her. And he didn't even know if she really truly loved him, because of Anne Marie.
Nathaniel knew that, because of all that confusion held up inside, he was still very wavery on the subject of emotion, and when Cameron had come and taken the only person he ever loved away, he had broken. So when link was worried, Nathaniel comforted and reassured, and kept all his worries hidden away in the deppest corners of his mind. He inhaled and exhaled deeply. Link didn't know that Nathaniel was all twisted up in knots because he had no idea what was going on with Zara. Kunti would have said something...wouldn't she?
Link didn't know about the times when he snored, and Nathaniel was kept awake by the worry that Zara was in danger, hurt, or dead. He didn't know about the times that Nathaniel had almost lost controlled and sniffled as he made dinner when Link was off galavanting somewhere else. He especially didn't know about the regular one-time-a-week occurences when Nathaniel had just broken down and cried himself to sleep.
Zara was so gentle and so perfect, he had grown up around such harsh people...she was such a reprieve from his regular life. It was terrible.
They were almost at the fortress now...how were they going to fare?
"Don't forget to pack my pants, Layla, dear!" Cameron called to Zara. Zara growled and nodded. She wondered if her impression was good enough. She had almost packed all of Layla's things, and hoped that Nerisa would get there soon. She looked out the open door of the chamber, and saw Layla give her a wink as she passed by. She turned back around.
Layla looked towards the entrance. She gasped as she caught sight of a green head whip around the corner, and then whip back. Nesira then fully stood out in the open and looked at Layla meaningfully. Layla looked around at the rest of the guards and waited for them all to turn the opposite way, and nodded. Nesira smirked and ran along the edge of the wall swiftly, and the last hint of green hair was seen whipping into Nabooru's quarters as the guards turned again.
(A/N- Ahaha I am listeing to the mp3s of the OoT soundtrack, and the Gerudo Area song just came on. snort I am such a loser. But hey, it gets me in the mood for writing Zelda fiction. Woot!)
Nika looked up as Nabooru scribbled down notes on how much treasure had been stolen this year, and how much and where they could pawn it off. She never even looked at Nika, she ignored her, like she had been for the past month.
I wonder if she even remembers that I'm here. She thought with resentment towards Nabooru.
For the past...oh who knows how long I've been here. I feel like I'm wastng away. Well...all my muscles are turning to fat, I guess you could put it, since NAbooru's been feeding me. I feel like a goddamn pet.
I am miserable now, and I wish I hadn't taken Link and Nathaniel's side, even though it was the right thing to do. If only Nabooru was more open minded. Nika really had nothing else to do but think about what she had done. It was like she was in time-out. Like a child.
Nothing has been happening for a while now...maybe if I...no, she'd be furious. Well...maybe not. Here goes...
"Uhm...ahem...uhm...N-Naboo...ru?" Nika's rough, out-of-use voice whispered. The queen started at looked around very slowly at Nika.
"Yes?" she said simply, and almost silent, dangerous tone of anger in her voice. So quiet that Nika could hear it clearly.
"W-well..." her voice wavered. "I, uh, I was wondering...since...I've been here so long and, uh, nothing...has...been happening..."
"No." The queen turned back to balancing the ruby inventory.
In a burst of bravery, Nika almost yelled at her dominant lover. "You didn't let me FINISH!" She called bitterly. Nabooru whipped back around in the chair and let out a whiny imitation of Nika.
"Oh, Miss Nabooru, even though I am a traitor and helped other traitors out, I feel I shouldn't be punished since I am your lover, oh, Miss Nabooru, please, oh, PLEASE let me out!..." she dropped the whiny tone. "Right?"
Nika sighed with defeat and hung her head, then lifted it again. If Nabooru wanted to make light of this...fine. "Yes. That's right. Let me out." said Nika, her vocie becoming strong. Nabooru got up and walked over to Nika.
"And why should I let you out now?"
"Because I feel I have been punished enough, and nothing has happened for quite a while, like I told you, and the Goddesses know it's not going to be any DIFFERENT around her for a long time."
Nabooru leered at her lover, paused, and struck her arcoss the face. She then held Nika's chin up to look at her eye to eye, with the tips of her fingers. "You think so, huh?"
"Uhm...y-yes?"
"You think I should let you out, Nika?" Nabooru twirled the keys aruond her finger, which he had brought with her over to Nika. "Because I am quite undecided, just as you sound. You sound quite undecided."
"Nabooru, stop FUCKING with me, are you gonna let me out or not?" Nabooru was taken aback and sat back on her haunches with a look of indignation on her face, like she could not believe Nika had said that to her, to her face. She backhanded Nika, and Nika let out a little cry of pain.
"I am not fucking with you dear, I am wondering you are even worthy of being here anymore, perhaps I should put you in the dungeons instead, wench."
"Oh, like you would put me in the dungeons. Like you actually have the GUTS." Nika spat. "You wouldn't put me in there. You put up a tough front, but when it comes to me you are a BIG, HUGE, SOFTY when it comes to punishment. This is barely what you would do to conspirators if they were allowed to stay in the fortress. This barely even phases me."
Nabooru's eyebrow twitched and she bit her lip, her mouth wavering. It looked like she was trying to hold back from KILLING Nika.
Nika could tell she struck a nerve. When it came to punishment, Nabooru liked to think she was very harsh. ANd when it was said she got soft with anyone, she got furious.
"Not a bit." Nika whispered.
"SILENCE!" As Nabooru's desert-tinted hand struck across the beautiful, burgundy-haired Gerudo's face a third time, the door burst open and they both stared.
A look of realization spread across both faces as Nika's voice called out Nesira's name in rapture, Nabooru caling out in anger and indignation.
"Get your hands off my sister, you big bully!" Nesira yelled, Drawing her scimitars. NAbooru Reached for her double-edged sword and the battle of love began.
(A/N- Since I suck at battles, my good friend Captain Gamer has created this following scene in my place. Please forgive my suckyness.)
"Get your hands off my sister, you power-mad, abusive, blind, idiotic witch!" Nesira yelled, then thought for two seconds and said, "Aw to hell with it. BITCH!" She then drew her scimitars. Nabooru reached for her double-edged sword and the battle of love began.
Nesira lunged forward with an unforgiving slash, only to be blocked just in time by Nabooru's sword. The gerudo queen then forced Nesira back and followed through with a series of strikes forward, many in a fluid motion due to the double-edged nature of her sword. There was sword-fighting, then there was sword-righting with a gerudo. However, when two gerudo are locked in combat with nothing fueling them but unbased hatred, things got very ugly very fast.
"I don't care if you ARE good!" Nesira shouted above the clashing of the swords, "I'm not letting you get off unscathed after mistreating Nika like this!"
With that slight morale boost, Nesira proceeded to get more on the offense, twirling around Nabooru's sword's double edges and hacking forth, but to no avail. Nabooru was just too fast for her strike.
"You speak of mistreating Nika? How about you? Where have you been for a MAJORITY OF HER LIFE?"
"Th-that's none of your business!" the other combatant fumed and struck forward, "Me not being there for her is WAY less than what you are doing to her... it's cruel and unusual, for sure!"
Nabooru scoffed, then leapt high into the air. Nesira looked to see where her airborne strike would land, but couldn't get any signs from how Nabooru lunged. She opted instead to just roll away and avoid any chance of contact.
"She turned traitor on the gerudo fortress!" The crimson-haired queen called, "YOU of all people, even though only half gerudo, should realize that there is zero tolerance for treachery!"
Nabooru then made a fast lunge, too fast for Nesira to completely prepare for and knocked the green-haired gerudo down. She moved to drive her sword into Nesira, but was unpleasantly surprised when Nesira placed her palms flat on the floor and propelled herself forward, knocking her feet square into the queen's chest. Nabooru struck her hand on to the ground and flipped herself on her feet again.
"Have you ever wondered WHY Nika did what she did?" Nesira shouted, "Perhaps she had a good, valid reason that even YOU would agree to!"
"There is no good reason to turn on the gerudo! You blasphemer!"
With an indignant fury, Nabooru leapt forward, then, in an art of swordplay that only gerudo royalty were taught, advanced in a series of confusing twirls that left Nesira desperately trying to find an opening, but not finding a single one. She didn't even notice when Nabooru had finished her acrobatic advance. With a nasty glee, Nabooru took advantage of Nesira's inexperience and landed in back of her, following up with a slice that cut a thin red line clear across Nesira's back and also splitting several of the strings that kept her breastplate on.
"Nesira!" Nika shouted, her tears of sadness at seeing the two people she loved the most fighting in cold blood becoming more bitter.
With a shout, Nesira placed her hand on her back and gritted her teeth hard. She kneeled down, the biting pain of Nabooru's sword bit so much. Nabooru poised her sword to drive it into Nesira's back, for she surely was also a traitor, and she would show Nika that she was just as harsh when dealing out punishment than ever. She thrust the sword down, but with so much force that Nesira could hear it. Nesira completely bent back and caught Nabooru's hand. Nabooru barely had time to look surprised before Nesira worked all her strength to flip the queen over her shoulder and directly on her back. Nesira afterward stood up and panted, feeling her blood beginning to drip down her back.
"You have to listen to reason, and not just your legacy!" Nesira breathed, "I tell the truth when I say this... Cameron is evil! He is manipulating everybody! You, especially! You're his greatest manipulation yet! A great ruler needs a little compassion... but you! You've been reduced to some kind of animal! You disgust me!"
Nabooru panted a bit on her back, then slowly got up, expertly weilding her sword again, "That's impossible! A gerudo queen cannot be manipulated, much less me! You lie!"
Nesira blocked an incoming attack, then tried some of her own jabs. However, the pain on her back sapped her energy deceptively slowly, and she could feel it. At one point, Nesira was able to use her two scimitars to grab and keep hold of Nabooru's weapon.
"What about Link and Layla? What Cameron has done to them? They love each other, and this interloper breaks them apart, enjoying every bit of their misery!"
Nabooru grunted in effort to free her sword, "Link has girls after him all the time! How can you be so sure he actually loves Layla?"
"Have you SEEN Link recently?" Nesira made her own effort grunts to keep Nabooru's weapon from her, "Tell me, all spite aside, what was Link like when you first saw him?"
"He was..." Nabooru strained to make an unbiased description, and found herself rather enjoying the imagery she got, "Childish, to say the least. He was easily overjoyed and when something could be taken any less seriously, he did so. He really was a breath of fresh air considering what Gannondorf did to Hyrule. I'd say the most outstanding part about him would be his eyes. There would always be a fire of courage burning in them."
"News flash!" Nesira gasped, "I've seen Link, and he is nothing like you just said. he isn't exacly melancholy, but he poorly hides his inner sorrows. I can see it. The fire in his eyes is gone! All I see is an empty shell! His mannerism is even affected! Compared to your Link, the one I've seen is much more tame, as if all the energy was just sucked right out!"
Nabooru couldn't believe what she heard. Link with low morale? Such a thing could not be. That courageous spirit couldn't be extinguished. But when she looked into Nesira's emerald eyes, she saw truth in them in a way that only two gerudo could derive from each other.
"So... so what if Link is in bad shape? That still does not justify his treachery." With a loud shout, Nabooru pulled her sword from Nesira's metal grip. Nesira gasped and leapt back to avoid an initiating slash.
"Link's not the only one!"
Both fighting gerudo looked over at Nika as she now stood. The time of mistreatment plus the recent blows left her legs visibly weak, but she stood nonetheless. Then she spoke.
"Layla probably has it worse than Link. She had to MARRY the creep!"
"Silence!" Nabooru howled over, "Nothing you say will spare your sister's life! You don't need to be in any more trouble than you already are in now! Once I am done with your sister, I just may do the same thing to you if you don't shut up!"
"Layla WAS raped!" Nika still called, "She had a child, surely you must know!"
"How do you know it was rape? Maybe they actually-"
"NO!" The chambermaid interrupted that thought, "She hates him! She hates him with every fiber of her being! You know what happened at the reception! No girl who punches a man in the nose AND BREAKS IT would be with that same man and bear his child willingly!"
"I will NOT have you spreading scandal!" The queen proclaimed and made for Nika. Nika gasped in horror as she saw Nabooru intended fully to kill her.
"NO YOU DON'T!" Nesira shouted and slashed both her scimitars down. Nabooru twirled between them, then used her free hand to ram her fist into Nesira's exposed stomach.
Nesira doubled over in pain, then suddenly locked her arms around Nabooru's torso. With a yell, she charged forward until she hit a wall, a large CRACK sounding from the wall, giving the pain she just caused Nabooru some sound.
"You can't deny how Layla hates Cameron." Nika muttered to Nabooru, who was stumbling around in pain, "You can see it. You've been ignoring it just to justify the way you;ve been acting. Layla is probably more torn up about the exile than Link is. I heard that Layla even tried to mutilate herself!"
"What?" Nabooru barked in disbelief, "Never!"
"I can hear the outside," Nika said softly, "and that is what I heard."
Nabooru seemed to soften for two seconds until her face contorted into hate, "No... NO! You lost all right to your opinion ever since you turned on the gerudo! I will not listen to YOU any more!"
Rather than finish her earlier lunge, Nabooru charged back toward Nesira. She wanted Nika to see her sister die before she herself died. She lashed forward with a renewed vigor, getting in a kick or a cut after a series of dodges and blocks. Nabooru then lifted her double-edged sword to bring down upon Nesira to attempt to cut her to two. Nesira lifted her scimitars to form an "X" shape and caught the sword. For a long time, Nabooru tried to overpower Nesira and force the sword between the scimitars, but Nesira kept hold strong.
"I just... can't believe how it's come to this." Nesira said quietly, then gasped as her foot slid back a bit, "When I heard that Nika finally got the woman of her dreams-Ahh! I was so happy for her! I just wanted to congratulate her on her- Anh! Finally achieving her dreams! What do I come home to? I come- Urgh! I come to see her in CHAINS. What happened between you two? What happ- Grah! happ-Agh! What happened to make you do this to her? Or rather... who? Think back to when you first realized you loved her! I wish I could have been there, but I wasn't! You yourself have to relive that moment!"
Nesira felt the sword stop forcing its way down. Nabooru thought about the time. The feeling she had when she admitted to herself that she loved Nika... then the feeling they shared when she told Nika herself. It was the happiest time in her life. Nothing would come between them. Nobody would come between them.
Nabooru's eyes widened slightly. That feeling... it was so strong! She felt it now! Yes, she had once chained and beaten Nika, but she was only acting out her part as the gerudo queen. She never once hated Nika... until now, until she turned traitor. But even if Nika had turned traitor, she would still love Nika! She looked over into Nika's eyes. She saw not the pure love that greeted her for the longest time. No, she saw sorrow, betrayal, and nearly dashed hope. No... she failed to keep her love for Nika. It was... it WAS all Cameron's fault! She vowed never to hate Nika, yet here she was, bending to the will of Cameron and hating all traitors, including her fair Nika. She HAD been manipulated.
The double-edged sword slid off of Nesira's scimitars and hit the floor, falling to the side. Nabooru staggered back, tears welling up and flowing freely. What has she been doing? The one love of her life and she just allows herself to be tricked into hurting this one heart so much. It hit her all at one time. She had been so confident, too. her world literally came crumbling down as she came to realize that she, the gerudo queen, was wrong. It was almost liberating. She had messed up, yet she did not feel all was lost! Was this what it was like to fail? To feel bad, but still have a hope of being able to make things right again.
"... Nabooru?" Nesira asked, seeing Nabooru no longer aiming to kill, but lost in her thoughts, completely intangible from the outside world.
She whirled around and saw Nika again for the first time, chained to the wall and in the most horrid of conditions that she had ever seen a gerudo. How could she ever have lost so much love for her that she would willingly do this to Nika? Well, it was about time she started to make everything right again. With Nika. With Cameron. With Layla and Link. She made her way to Nika to remove those horrible chains.
She took the rusted key in her hands and thrust it into each keyhole as she unlocked Nika. Nika stood and rubbed her sore wrists, then almost immediately ran towards Nesira and they embraced. Nika automatically got a bit of blood on her fingers from Nesira's wound and pulled back, running towards the personal first-aid utilities that she and Nabooru kept in their quarters. Nabooru sat down and cleaned her sword, obviously awkward about Nesira, since she had just almost killed her.
Nika brought over the first aid.
"Sit on the bed." She instructed. Nesira did so and Nika tried and failed to get around the breastplate, so she 'tsk'ed and sighed. "Nesira, you're going to have to take this thing all the way off, I can't wrap the wond properly."
"But..." Nesira gave a hesitant glance towards Nabooru and drew ina a big breath. "But..."
"Nesira." said Nika. "Just turn away from her."
"Oh, yeah. Okay." Nesira turned around and undud the strings on her back. Nika sterilized the wound with peroxide and then took the gauze and wrapped it tightly around Nesira's torso.
"Ow!" Nesira complained. "BE GENTLE!"
"Well I can't be gentle if you keep wiggling around like that, now hold still!" Nika scolded. Nesira growled and finally settled down.
Once she was wrapped up, Nesira got up and she and Nika looked eachother over.
"Surreal." Nesira said. "You look so different..." she reached out and messed with a piece of Nesira's hair. "Your hair is lighter, even."
"Well, I've been speanding alot of time in the sun." said Nika. She grabbed Nesira by the shoulders and looked her half-sister up and down. "And you! You've definitely grown up! Look at you! Wearing all this armor, and...and all this makeup! When did you get all grown up?"
"Would you stop gushing, 'mom'?" Nesira scoffed. "It hasn't been THAT long." She said. "Anyway, I think we should really get going. Link and everyone else are probably here by now." Before Nesira made for the door, Nabooru got up and awkwardly walked over to her.
"Uhm, I want to say...I'm sorry. I wasn't in my right mind...and...well...you know."
Nesira laughed softly. "Yeah. I know. Now let's just put all this behind usand go kick some Cameron ass!" she said with renewed spunk. Nika grabbed her daggers and all three set out to bring into action this plan.
Link, Nathaniel, and Grasshopper were almost to the fortress, and tensions were building up.
"You guys ready?" Link gulped.
"Sort of."
"Not really." replied his comrades.
He sighed. "So much confidence, men!" He commented, dripping with sarcasm. "Now, come on. We've been preparing for this! There's no way we can lose...we've got friends who'll help us.
"Yeah..."
"I guess so..." Replied Grasshopper and Nathaniel, respectively.
"...Alright if you two aren't confident, that's yall's goddamn problem, but I'm confident that we can get through this, now COME ON!" Link stomped onto the deserty landscape of the Gerudos fortress and stopped in a bit, turning to see Grasshopper and Nathaniel laugh and follow him.
"Ah, is this not WONDERFUL, Layla dear? We're almost finished!" Cameron pulled Zara to his side. "Soon we can depart to my kingdom and lead the rest of our lives there! It's wonderful, isn't it?" He waited for Zara's response. She nodded. "Now that's not very nice. When you are speaking with your husband you should reply to him in a polite way, not just NOD. Now speak."
Zara panicked. What was she to do? She and Layla had barely ANY similarity on the sound of thier voice! Perhaps she could pretend she wasn't speaking to him...she looked around for paper and a quill. Nothing. She sighed. What would Layla do in this situation? She would give Cameron lip, that's for sure. But if she said no, he'd get angry. Then it came to her. She put on the highest tone she could and said, in a voice that was CLEARLY sarcastic, "Oh, yes, Cameron dearest, I do hope we can be done by nightfall! I want to get to your kingdom first thing in the morning!" She dropped the little-girl tone, moved her face closer to Cameron's, and growled. She then turned a bit away and tried to contain a giggle. Oh, this was fun!
She wondered where Nathaniel was. Although messing with the older prince was quite fun in it's own right, she missed her favorite prince, the delicate, charming Nathaniel.
Link and Grasshopper stood in the shadows, right outside Gerudos fortress. They had a good view of al lthe guards, and as Grasshopper looked for any sign of Nesira, and Link for one of Layla, Nathaniel was sneaking quietly away to the infirmary. Occasionally he would look back for instruction on where to go, or whether to step out from behind something or not.
Link and Grasshopper would respond with a nod or a shake of the head, and when they shook thier head no, he would wati and they would give him the ok signal and he would set off. When the last strand of orange hair was gone through the infiramary's door, Link and Grasshopper walked into the sun-lit compound.
"What do we do?" Grasshopper asked Link out of the corner of his mouth.
"Er...well...think we can outrun them?"
"Pssht. Not a chance."
"HEY!" called a guard who had turned around in suspicions of hearing somebody talking. (She didnt know how true it was at the time, haha.)
"Gah! Look's like we have to try! Come on!" Link pulled Grasshopper by the collar and Grasshopper yelped out a pained "GACK!" before following the running Hero of Time.
"After them!" Called the guard. "They are exiled from this place!"
The entire compound went up about 100 decibals in noise as all Gaurds repeated "SEIZE THEM!" and screamed as the attempted to capture the two running men. They ran and ran, and Link and Grasshopper weaved in and out of the Thieves' Hideout and finally got a moment of peace. They spun quickly around the corner and behind the boxes as they breathed heavily. Link finally stood up, realizing where they were.
They were outside his and Layla's quarters. He looked up at the sign that hung above his door.
"...Hero of Time...hereby exiled." he narrowed his eyes, rolled then and sighed. "Oh, that's nice. I bet Layla had a FIT when she saw that."
"THERE HE IS! GET HIM!" the guards yelled, finding Link and his brunette comrade. Link had barely any time to think.
"YEEP!" He jumped and ran at the closest door, his door. When he ran in, he had just realized how big of a mistake he had made.
He tripped over a bump in the floor and fell, backing up. He gulped as he and Grasshopper were surrounded and closed in on.
Gerudos were everywhere. Link gulped.
"L-look...I don't want to fight ANY of you. I'm just here…because I want to get Layla back from Cameron...and...I don't have a problem with anybody but him. Please." He stared deep into the eyes of the frontal Gerudo. "Please." She glared.
"Knaive! She'd never love you again if she had the chance! She's accepted her life with Cameron and you can't stop it! He's packing her up to go to HIS kingdom RIGHT. NOW." She said.
"Oh, for Din's sakes!" Link cried. He took a great leap and held onto a pole in the ceiling, shifting his weight and flipping into the hole in the ceiling of the room. He smiled and waved before taking off as fast as he could towards the Great Hall. Grasshopper mimicked his actions.
"AFTER THEM!" called the gerudo. Her reinforcements took off and she did as well, coming up behind them.
Grasshopper and Link ran across the compound and into the shadows, out of the sight of the guards, who suspected that they had run inside, and went on a wild goose chase for nobody.
Layla came around the corner, grabbing Link's face with her left hand and kissing him passionately before he swooped her up.
"It's my damsel in distress!" he said. They both laughed. Grasshopper signaled to them and they set off towards the Great Hall.
In the Great Hall, Cameron had everything up and packed and they were about to leave. Zara was getting worried. Where was everybody? Especially Nathaniel...
The aforementioned prince was, in fact, in the infiramary, explaining everything to the healing Gerudo women.
"I was there, I saw Zara in solitary confinement! She wasn't at the castle at all! You should ask her about it!"
"But we haven't seen Zara all day!"
"That's because she was posing as Layla, because Layla had to be outside for our plan."
"Dude. You have a plan and eveything?" Judith cocked an eyebrow. Nathaniel nodded silently.
"You sure are dedicated. ...There must be some righteousness in you. Come on, girls, who says we help Link and Nathaniel?" The girls all cheered and whopped as Nathaniel beamed.
Just then, Nika and Nabooru came in with Nesira.
"I ORDER YOU ALL TO COME WITH US TO THE GREAT HALL, CAMERON IS EVIL!" cried the Queen.
"Yeah, we deduced that from Nathaniel's explaination." a sarcastic Celia explained. Nabooru looked around and saw the small prince, who waved and smiled nervously. She sighed.
"Alright, let's go!" Nabooru said, The women all got up and they too, set off for the Great Hall.
"I'ma GONNA KICK THAT CAMERON'S ASS!" Nesira said in a bloodthirsty way. It almost looked as if she grew fangs as she did so.
Eventually, all the members met up at the entrance to the Great Hall.
"So, who goes in first?"
"I will!" Piped up Grasshopper. "Come ooooon! I really want to!" He said, at the others' doubtful expressions.
"Dude he doesn't even know who you are."
"Well then come in with me!" Grasshopper gestured to Nathaniel. "Besides, Link has to go in last, fo the GRAND FINALE!"
"...Uhm well I'm not sure that's really necess--"
"OF COURSE IT IS!" cried Grasshopper. "Besides, Layla, didn't you say that Zara's, like, posing as you right now? If he gets angry, wouldn't you want to be there to do something about it? Like, what if he holds a dagger against her neck? We'll all need to be there to stop him!"
"...And like Cameron won't be too distracted by Link?" Layla fiddled idly with one of the long peices of hair by Link's ear, and he shuddered.
"Please, not now, Layla." He said, with a wavery smile. "I need strong knees, not weak ones, to fight."
"Right. Heehee..." Layla giggled mischeiviously.
"Can we just all go in TOGETHER?" Nesira said irritably, tapping her foot.
"Yes, sounds logical..." said Nabooru.
"Alright. Let's go then!"
Finally, the giant doors to the great hall were pushed open, and, on a backdrop of sun, the group of warriors stood heroically in front of Cameron, Link and Layla framed in the center.
"L-Layla?" Cameron said, confused, as the girl jumped down from Link's arms, drawing her swords. He turned back to Zara, who immediately stuck her tongue out at him and jumped from where she sat in the Carriage and ran over to Nathaniel, hugging him. He smiled softly and hugged back. Zara then turned and snatched a straight sword from one of the suits of armor along the wall.
"No, Zara." she said, correcting him. His expression of confusion quickly turned to anger as he realized what was going on.
"So you wish to fight me, do you? Very well, prepare to fail!" He said, drawing his sword, then creating a flow of energy to it as his sword began to glow. Layla jumped.
"Oh, yeah, guys, forgot to tell you! Cameron got über super powerful...attacks from Ganondorf so he may be a bit formidable!" she said with false cheerfulness.
"YA THINK?" Nesira growled at her. "A little late for that, let's get 'im!" She began to run at him, but immediately the horde of guards that had been chasing Link and Grasshopper materialized, them all looking a bit confused but ready to fight, finally realizing that Cameron had teleported them here.
(Alright here comes my very first fight scene...EVER. Lets hope my talent in other areas of writing can hold up for me, slightly, in action. . You remember how my Twinrova scene turned out...)
"Ah, damn, we have to fight them, too?" she sighed, running up against the head Gerudo warrior and becoming locked in a sword-against-sword with her, anmd they sidled out of view. Grasshopper and Link nodded to eachother and took on five of the warriors apiece, fighting each one individually, plowing through them with fairly quick moves.
Nika and Nabooru took on more of the most powerful Gerudos, constantly occupied, as one by one took the other's place. Zara took on yet more of the warriors and the hall was filled with sounds of metal clashing together and people grunting and women dying. Kunti swooped overhead, swinging on the chandelier, (YES. SWINGNG ON THE CHANDELIER) taking the occasional Gerudo and dropping her into the large dungeon that Link had first been captured in when he first visited Gerudo fortress.
Nesira tried a spin attack and was just met with metal again, as she tried another series of quick jabs against the very powerful warrior.
"Come on, gimme a break!" she muttered under her breath, as the Gerudo blocked her every attack, smirking and not saying a word. Finally, as they backed closer and closer to a wall, Nesira jumped forward onto and bounced off of it by her feet, falling back headfirst and plunging both scimitars deep into the womans back as she fell with a cry of pain. Nesira wrenched her swords out of the woman's insides went on to fight more Gerudo.
Cameron stood by his carriage, conducting magic into his quickly failing army. From behind he heard someone walk up and he turned to see Grasshopper standing there, a smug look on his face.
"Time to stop playing puppet master, Cameron." he said with complete seriousness, although you could see the childish teasing twinkle in his eyes. Cameron growled and lunged forward with his sword, totally forgetting about his army, and they lost power fast.
The other warriors were cutting clean paths through the Gerudo, and Grasshopper turned to check on Nesira, who he saw was coming for her slice of Cameron, before she stopped in her tracks and looked on in horror, screaming his name as Grasshopper himself was thrown into the wall by the impact of the broad side of Cmaeron's sword. He slumped in a heap onto the wall.
"I haven't time for you, midget." he spat. This got Grasshopper very angry, but in the state he was in he couldn't show it. He turned and a dying Gerudo slumped onto him.
"You...defiled our tribe..." she choke out through spills of blood seeping out of her mouth. "You...bastard!" she fell. "We'll...get you...for this..." He looked up as the remaining Gerudos turned angrily at him, but still fought off thier opponents. He turned and ran into a corner, whispering an incantation, then shooting out a jet of green light that shot in one ear an out the other of every living Gerudo besides Nika, Nabooru, Layla, Zara, Judith, the rest of the Nurses, and Kunti, (and Nesira, if she counts...) and they stopped moving immediately. It took the other side a moment to realize that they weren't fighting to stop killing the other Gerudos. They all looked around, confused at what they were doing. Kunti realized what was going on and jumped down. She pointed to the large figure of Cameron in the corner.
She searched for an accusation. "...TRESPASSER! GET HIM!" She cried. The army that formerly knew Cameron had suddenly forgotten who he was in his attempts to make them feel pity and try to help him.
"Shit!" Cameron whispered. He had just enough time to cry out: "ICE!" and he froze every single Gerudo in the room, besides the ones opposing him. He used a levitation spell to stick them to the ceiling. He cleared his path to Link. He ran through the nurses, each one trying to get him, but he just crashed through them, ready to end this. Zara was running for him, but she tripped and fell. She expected to hear the clang of her sword to the ground, but what she heard was a squish and a groan of pain from Cameron. She looked up, then down, and saw that her sword had gone right through the princes foot and sliced off his toes. "WENCH!" HE cried, ripping his foot away, and kicking her, despite the awesome pain.
He plowed through more of the Nurses and ran straight for Layla, and Nesira quickly came to the warriors aide, as she was trying to patch up Grasshopper the best she could. Kunti was quickly whispering spelles of her own, as some of the Gerudos fell from the Ceiling and landed catlike in Cameron's path. As Cameron was stopped by Nesira, Kunti decided that her spell was too slow, and stopped.
Nesira and Cameron were locked in a sword fight, and every attack was matched with another.
"You aren't going to beat me, you lowly half-breed. You really aren't. Its simply not going to work."
"Shut up! How can you call me a lowly half breed when you have a child who is also a half breed? Why would you EVER say that? You bastard! You call yourself a prince, but you've caused so much trouble to every person in here, even your brother--and you still refuse to admit that you are a filthy, schemeing WRETCH!" With that Nesira flipped over Cameron and turned, ripping a clean slice down in between the bone of his arm and the bone of his shoulder, blood gushing black from his side.
"Ooh, did little Princey lose an arm?" Layla called, suddenly fighting Gerudos who had burst from the prison and were attacking everybody. She laughed maniacally as she killed two or three more. Cameron roaed in agony, and faltered, as Nesira ran to help Grasshopper. Link knew Cameron was coming for him now, as he stumbled twoards the Warrior. He Stopped suddenly, and a great light surrounded his as he prevented any further blood loss and created artificial body parts for himself.
He ran at Link, towering and easy 4 feet above him, (Link's only 5'6", you know. I learned that from Soul Caliber II. X3...So yes, Cameron is nine and a half feet tall. Bite me.) Link's short form only helped in Clocking Cameron's attacks, because Cameron could only attack from above as they sidled the opposite way from where they were standing. Link wasn't injured, but he was getting tired, and he knew he would eventually be unable to keep fighting. They fought up and down the Great Hall, Cameron laughing maliciously with his seemingly neverending source of energy, and Link panting heavily, still blocking attacks. Cameron then brought his sword down onto the Master Sword with such force that Link fell.
Cameron then lifted his sword, accidentally slicing into Link's finger as he went, and brought his sword up high to kill the Hero.
"LINK!" Cried the others, running to his aide, but Cameron called ice again and now, everybody was frozen except for him and the Hero of Time.
Or so he thought.
"Now, Link, your curse on my life will be gone forever, and Layla and I will travel to Cyrin and she will be my queen and you will be--"
"Winning this foght right about now? Yeah, thought so." Link said, standing up. From far across the hall, Kunti and Grasshopper stood, unfrozen, and Grasshopper smiled.
"CATCH, LINK!" cried Grasshopper, throwing something white and glowing twoards Link. Link caught it and put it on, and quickly grew into the ten-foot-tall Fierce Diety. Immediately Cmaeron reacted and he and Link slashed swords more than once, Link's giant green and blue one crashing against Cameron's silver one. They fought for what seemed like forever, the distraught Layla grabbing onto her best friend, Nathaniel havign to hold up Zara from the wieght.
Link and Cameron traveled across the hall over and over, and the white haired diety had finally managed to tired out Cameron, and Cameron paused to catch his breath and the superpowered Link slashed off the unassuming Prince's arm and toes. Cameron cried out in anger and agony, and ran towards Link, discarding his sword on the way, and grabbed Link's face, wrenching off the mask and throwing it to the floor n the other side of the room. Nathaniel jumped, Layla started a fresh bout of crying, and Zara and to grab onto the wall with the weight of her friend.
(A/N- Yep. That big long fight scene sucked majorly...)
Cameron summoned his sword to him and cornered Link as he sat in the dark crook of the walls, panting. Cameron stood, gasping and losing blood, sweating and smiling triumphantly, if a bit weakly, and raised his sword.
"Go on. Do it, Cameron. I don't think you have the guts..." Link smirked.
"What?"
"Yeah, you know I've got five or six friends that'd love to slice your brains out if they had the chance, including Layla. So if you want to, kill me, but I'd try to figure how to escape before you do anything." He narrowed his eyes.
"How dare you?" Cameron said dangerously, still bleeding profusely from his left shoulder, where there used to be an arm. "You think you can scare me with words? HAH!" He brought back his sword and almost sruck forward, but before anybody saw anything, Link was staring at a metallic, blood-covered sword, pointing straight at the tip of his nose. He backed up as far as he could when he saw the blade begin to turn, and it turned full circle and then went back before sliding away, out through Cameron's stomach. His pupils has shrunk to the size of pins, and he was gasping for air as he grabbed his torso and fell, face first, to the floor.
A sudden sound like a crash was heard and everybody who had been frozen was unfrozen, flexing thier fingers and arms and everything that can get stiff after being in a block of ice for a while.
There, behind him, stood a seething Nathaniel, breathing heavily and glaring fire at his brother. "See you in HELL, Cameron." Link gaped. Nathaniel? The last person he expected to actually come up and slice Cameron in two had…done it? Nathaniel composed himself and sheathed his sword. "The deed is done."
Layla came up and ran straight past Cameron's corpse into Link's arms and hugged him before putting one of Link's bloody fingers into her mouth and sucking on the cut for a while.
"He didn't get you bad, did he?" she asked despeartely.
"No, really. I'm fine." Link smiled weakly. Zara came up and put a hand on Nathaniel's chest and another on his back, kissing his cheek as he grabbed her hand with his own. They smiled at eachother and Grasshopper came shooting over with Nesira and stopped right at Cameron.
"And this is for calling me SHORT! " said Grasshopper, plunging a sword into the corpse and ripping it from the neck down. A quiet and labored groan was heard from Cameron as blood shot from the inside of his body and seeped onto the floor. NOW He was dead.
"Dude, that's totally GROSS." Said Link, staring. Grasshopper shrugged and sheathed his sword.
"He called me short. Nobody insults my height."
"Oh! Oh!" Layla said, gripping her scimitars. "Hold on! Hey, Link…Nathaniel…Grasshopper, you might want to look away for this." She ripped his pants down the middle a bit and a great splurting noice was heard as she, Zara, Judith, Kunti and Nesira giggled wildly. She told Link and Nathaniel to keep their eyes hidden and her retreating footsteps were heard. You heard a faint "INTO THE WASTELAND WITH THEE!" before she came running back and flipping the corspe over and telling the guys they could open their eyes. Everybody who didn't see could guess what had happened to Cameron's groin area from the fresh pool of blood there.
"Okay, now this just isn't fair." Said Link. "Nesira, you got his arm, Zara, you got his toes, Layla disposed of his…er…man parts, and Nathaniel got to kill him and Grasshopper just totally ripped him in half. They guy's MY nemesis, I believe I deserve a part, too!" said Link, pouting.
"Take your pick…" said Layla a little uneasily. Link smirked and brought down the Master Sword on the Prince's neck and ripped his head from his shoulders. He threw his head back and cackled a bit before composing himself.
"Youuuuuuuu suuuuuuuuck!" he said to the bloody thing that WAS Cameron.
"Okay, can we get rid of him now? He's totally starting to gross me out…" said Zara, they all giggled a bit and called over 5 or 6 gerudos to dispose of his body.
Nobody knew where they put it…but they didn't really care, either.
A/N- Thank yew, thank yew, thank yew. There ya have it, folks. the amazing defeat of Prince Cameron and Layla and Link's reunion. Now I have to tell you again.
THIS IS NOT THE LAST CHAPTER.
I wouldn't leave you without Link and Layla's happily ever after, now would i?
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